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diff --git a/includes/common/doc/social-contract.txt b/includes/common/doc/social-contract.txt deleted file mode 100644 index cd9c368b1..000000000 --- a/includes/common/doc/social-contract.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,131 +0,0 @@ -Debian GNU/Linux Social Contract - -The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common -cause to create a free operating system. This is the "social contract" -we offer to the free software community. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -"Social Contract" with the Free Software Community - - 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software - - We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free - software. As there are many definitions of free software, we include - the guidelines we use to determine if software is "free" below. We will - support our users who develop and run non-free software on Debian, but - we will never make the system depend on an item of non-free software. - - 2. We Will Give Back to the Free Software Community - - When we write new components of the Debian system, we will license them - as free software. We will make the best system we can, so that free - software will be widely distributed and used. We will feed back - bug-fixes, improvements, user requests, etc. to the "upstream" authors - of software included in our system. - - 3. We Won't Hide Problems - - We will keep our entire bug-report database open for public view at all - times. Reports that users file on-line will immediately become visible - to others. - - 4. Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software - - We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free-software - community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. We - will support the needs of our users for operation in many different - kinds of computing environment. We won't object to commercial software - that is intended to run on Debian systems, and we'll allow others to - create value-added distributions containing both Debian and commercial - software, without any fee from us. To support these goals, we will - provide an integrated system of high-quality, 100% free software, with - no legal restrictions that would prevent these kinds of use. - - 5. Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards - - We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs that - don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created - "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our FTP archive for this software. - The software in these directories is not part of the Debian system, - although it has been configured for use with Debian. We encourage CD - manufacturers to read the licenses of software packages in these - directories and determine if they can distribute that software on their - CDs. Thus, although non-free software isn't a part of Debian, we - support its use, and we provide infrastructure (such as our - bug-tracking system and mailing lists) for non-free software packages. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -The Debian Free Software Guidelines - - 1. Free Redistribution - - The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from - selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate - software distribution containing programs from several different - sources. The license may not require a royalty or other fee for such - sale. - - 2. Source Code - - The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in - source code as well as compiled form. - - 3. Derived Works - - The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow - them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the - original software. - - 4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code - - The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified - form _only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with - the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. - The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from - modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a - different name or version number from the original software. (This is a - compromise. The Debian group encourages all authors to not restrict any - files, source or binary, from being modified.) - - 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups - - The license must not discriminate against any person or group of - persons. - - 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor - - The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in - a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the - program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic - research. - - 7. Distribution of License - - The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the - program is redistributed without the need for execution of an - additional license by those parties. - - 8. License Must Not Be Specific to Debian - - The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's - being part of a Debian system. If the program is extracted from Debian - and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise within the terms - of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is - redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in - conjunction with the Debian system. - - 9. License Must Not Contaminate Other Software - - The license must not place restrictions on other software that is - distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license - must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium - must be free software. - - 10. Example Licenses - - The "GPL", "BSD", and "Artistic" licenses are examples of licenses that - we consider "free". - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |